With rumors circulating earlier in the summer about a potential franchise sale, we were — if only for a few days — allowed to contemplate what life would be like if our team had a different owner. Over the last 15 years we’ve gone through countless players and coaches, a few uniform changes, a stadium renovation, some amazing victories and lots of horrible defeats. There has been one constant: Chris Cohan.

I’d like to compile your defining memories, experiences and impressions of the Cohan era so we can write the future history of his ownership. Rather than posting it below in the comment section, send it to me at gswfastbreak@gmail.com. I’ll chop up and arrange the stories — and give you credit for your contributions if I use them. These exercises tend to work better the more specific and personal the stories, so think of the anecdote or moment you’d describe to someone if he or she asked you to explain the Cohan era. From the first blow-up with Nelson and Webber, to his All-Star game appearance, to the thrill of We Believe, to the franchise’s current struggles, there’s plenty of material — good and bad — for you to mine. Get your stories or comments to me by 6 PM Sunday August 16 and I’ll get something up by the middle of next week, work willing.

And yes, this a completely premature exercise — but there’s always hope that by treating Chris Cohan like history we may make it to the future just a little bit sooner.

I’ll cop to being a recovering lawyer, but please explain how I’m ethically challenged.

I will go along with the change. gmoney’s suggestion, like all gmoney suggestions, is a good one.

Now I have a suggestion.

I suggest you start thinking of a new handle.

Al Oha

Feltbot conceding? Or he doesn’t understand the bet?

I’d like to bet Feltbot that the W’s don’t make the 4th seed for the 2010 playoffs.
6th seed or higher, you win. 7th seed or lower, I win. You game?

http://chriscohansucks.blogspot.com/ Chris Cohan

Recovering lawyer, you say?
Which part of Southern California?

Holy Toledo

1. I agree that Nelson could have handled the Webber thing better. I’ve said in other posts in other blogs that his hardheadedness and unwillingness to compromise is his biggest fault. That doesn’t take away from the fact that many players play thru that, end up growing up sooner and doing well. Webber was THE ROOT cause of that whole thing and any of you old enough to remember KNOW IT. Since when are coaches sensitive guidance counselors? Sure, say Nelson has to play that game. Well, i think Webber should have TAKEN IT. Time continues to prove those, like Webber, who need special treatment, to be wrong.

2. To those who stated they’re tired of the “DN is the only coach to do anything for us in 30 years” thing: OK. Sure, the W’s history is lame. Low bar. I get all that. But who else could/would/have we gotten? You can rip Nelson, but be careful what you wish for as far as wishing him gone.

3. I have NEVER in the last all this time, gone into a season saying these things. I feel i recognize talent. I’ve thought the team was “better” relative to previous years…in previous years. But i’ve never felt there was as WIDE a chasm between how much young talent they do have and how good most of the fan base and local writers seem to think (from the torch bearing angry mob reaction to last year especially, i mean, what did any of you expect? Did you expect 48 wins to mean anything with all the factors that went down, many of them out of the teams control?)

4. As for all the talent it was pointed out to me Nelson’s not won it all with, or gone out in the first roung with: First of all, he built/got that talent. Dallas was as lame as we’ve been, for a loooong time. He got there and very shortly they were a player in the west. I would argue Dirk, Nash, Finley etc were good, but nowhere near the levels of the comparison to Jackson i was making. Jordan, Pippen, Shaq and Kobe. There’s a difference.

My point was, while not winning it all, Nelson has a proven track record of gathering talent, fast. He then builds it up, adding more and more D. Sure, maybe not enough D. But he was doing that in Dallas, only to have his downfall (back to his main fault, stubbornness, which i agree with) with Cuban take him away from the product he built, only to see Avery Johnson get most of the credit.

My point has never been that Nelson is perfect, just better than anything else we can get. Is that wrong? Prove it then we can talk. You want him gone? You sure it’ll be better? Hmm.

I just read Adam talk about how Nelson is great when he’s coaching a team on the way up, but awful when they’re going down. Well, has it ever occurred to Adam that he has “checked out” less than Adam thinks? Maybe Don learned, from years in the league, that if you’re going to be bad anyway, LEARN SOMETHING from it and if you lose more even better. Learning something from down years can mean lots of things. I don’t suppose ANY of you know what more than Don Nelson.

I am simply saying use perspective. The coach is better than most give credit for. The talent on the team is better than most give credit for. What DN did last year helped him and the team in ways most don’t understand nor should. I’ve NEVER made such bold statements like this in the last 2 decades. And i’m not even saying they’re going to be all that. Simply saying things aren’t as bad as most make them out to be and we DO have a lot of talent. Could be used to acquire a star, or could be utilized like in ’75, balanced.

I do agree that health, of course, is the factor Monta needs. If he’s at all his old self then he will be close to “a star.” AR is on his way. My main concern (and i also agree with Adam that teams will focus on AR now) with AR is his reckless style. I love the energy and heart but he needs to know when to let certain plays go, like a great hitter knowing when not to crash into a wall for a ball leading by 7 in the 9th.

I’m not Fitz in the syrupy blind, year after year optimism. I’ve mostly RIPPED the Warriors the last 2 decades. I’m not a full on Nelly lover. I do like the man and the coach and mainly i see a huge imbalance between how much he’s done and how much ire he gets. Most simply don’t see/get the subtle ways he does things.

When he gets this talent going, this year as an eye opener, then on towards “we’ve really got something here” in the next couple of years, then you will understand what i’ve been trying to say here.

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